This week’s news is very abbreviated and comes after a few weeks with no news. I’ve been doing a lot of travel where I had little to no Internet connection. Combine that with some computer issues and it means nothing new for nearly a month. Posts should be...
Foster D. Coburn III
Foster D. Coburn III built his first Web site in 1995 and he has been working exclusively in WordPress since 2013. He has used the Divi theme exclusively since 2015. Earlier in his career he was the author of 13 best-selling books on CorelDRAW and has been a contributor to numerous technology and graphics-related magazines. Foster has taken many projects, including this Web site, from the early design stage through to a finished piece. He has been a featured speaker at many graphics conferences.
We’ve all seen the special effects in movies where a character looks to be in a very unrealistic situation. Of course it was filmed in front of a green screen and then the situation was digitally inserted using chroma key technology. I’ll tell you about a...
Adobe wants to compete with Corel’s Painter. More than 100 megapixels in a phone camera? How do the scammers online make money? Elvis’ car is for sale! Automattic buys Tumblr. These stories and many more are covered in this week’s news. Click on the...
If you wander through your house or office, you’ll product find a huge number of devices plugged into an outlet and using electricity. How much are they using? We’ll discuss a way to monitor their usage. Yes, I’ll get a small commission if your...
Samsung had the biggest headlines of the week for sure. They released two versions of the Samsung Galaxy Note 10, the Galaxy Book S and the Galaxy Watch Active 2. Is a fitness tracker a better answer for you than a smart watch? Do you have an ancient WordPress site?...
I’ve talked about various solutions for connecting a bare hard drive externally to your computer in previous posts. They were just some flavor of cabling. Today I’ll look at a docking station that makes the solution a lot more elegant while also adding...
When I first starting writing the Graphics Unleashed Blog in 2005, I was excited to have a way to start a conversation and have others continue that conversation via commenting. There have been a few good conversations, but many posts didn’t receive a single...
Samsung’s Note 10 is coming and there are a lot of stories about its release. Sprint and T-Mobile are about to become one and you’ll find quite a few headlines about that as well. Capital One is the latest hack victim and your data could be involved. How...
I’ve been charging my phones wirelessly for more than four years now. Yes, I still use wired charging at times when wireless isn’t convenient. Over the years I’ve collected three different Qi chargers and have learned that some are better than...
The FTC laid down some massive fines on Facebook and Equifax for data breaches. FaceApp is still evil. There is a safer browser. Can a TV dinner look spectacular? iPhone 11 is coming. Samsung Fold is coming back. Where are all those Bob Ross paintings? These and many...
It’s been almost a year since disaster struck and our backup plan had a catastrophic failure. Our data has recovered, but the corporate wallet still feels a lot lighter. As part of our recovered, we knew we had to replace at least two of the hard drives in our...
Let’s say you have a business with some products you want to sell online. Some commercials say if you just put them online, you’ll get rich. It isn’t quite that simple. I’ll run through some of the steps involved and I would appreciate your...
